Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer
The Prix Charles Léopold Mayer is a science prize awarded annually by the French Académie des sciences for basic research in the field of biology , biochemistry and biophysics . It is named after Charles Léopold Mayer (1881–1971), an Irish-French chemist, financier and philanthropist .
The prize is awarded regardless of the nationality and place of residence of the award winner, but it should not be awarded to awardees from the same foreign country (“nationaux d'un même pays étranger”) for two consecutive years. The prize money of 25,000 euros (as of 2018) is not intended to support the winner, but to promote further research, which is why people over 65 years of age are excluded from the award.
14 of the 70 award winners (as of mid-2018) later received a Nobel Prize .
Award winners
- 1961 Francis Crick (1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1962 François Jacob (1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Jacques Monod (1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1963 Erwin Chargaff
- 1964 André Lwoff (1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1965 Honor Bridget Fell
- 1966 Marianne Grunberg-Manago
- 1967 Marshal Nirenberg (1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1968 François Gros
- 1969 Jean Brachet
- 1970 Raymond Latarjet
- 1971 Boris Ephrussi
- 1972 Robert W. Briggs , Thomas J. King
- 1973 Jacques Oudin
- 1974 Georges Cohen
- 1975 Sydney Brenner (2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Seymour Benzer
- 1976 Jean-Pierre Ebel , Élie Wollman
- 1977 Walter Gilbert (1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Mark Ptashne , Evelyn Witkin
- 1978 Roger Monier , Piotr Slonimski
- 1979 David Blow , David Phillips
- 1980 Philippe L'Héritier
- 1981 François Chappeville
- 1982 Barbara McClintock (1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1983 Michel Lazdunski , Vittorio Luzatti
- 1984 John Bertrand Gurdon (2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1985 Jean Montreuil
- 1986 Antonio Garcia-Bellido , Walter Gehring
- 1987 Paul Cohen
- 1988 David D. Sabatini
- 1989 Marc Chabre
- 1990 Jeff Schell , Marc Van Montagu
- 1991 Jean-Charles Schwartz
- 1992 Raymond Devoret , Miroslav Radman
- 1993 Andrée Tixier-Vidal
- 1994 Ralph Brinster , Richard Palmiter
- 1995 Moshe Yaniv
- 1996 Stanley Prusiner (1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Charles Weissmann
- 1997 André Sentenac
- 1998 Elizabeth H. Blackburn (2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1999 Christine Petit
- 2000 H. Robert Horvitz (2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 2001 Joël Bockaert
- 2002 Roger Kornberg (2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
- 2003 Paolo Sassone-Corsi
- 2004 Denis Duboule
- 2005 Jean Dénarié
- 2006 Bruce Alan Beutler (2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 2007 Eric Westhof
- 2008 Adrian Bird
- 2009 Marie-France Carlier-Pantaloni
- 2010 Robert Tjian
- 2011 Jean-Marc Reichhart
- 2012 Lyndon Emsley
- 2013 Vincent Colot
- 2014 C. David Allis
- 2015 François Schweisguth
- 2016 Claude Desplan
- 2018 Eric Gilson
- 2019 Silvia Arber
Web links
- Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer
- Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer. List of award winners (PDF, 1.8 MB, status 2014) at academie-sciences.fr; accessed on July 6, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme (fph.ch); accessed on July 6, 2018.